PRESENT SATE OF MIND TO ITS DESIRED STATE – a journey Part 1 – State of mind

In our school days, we all have studied that physical matter is found in 3 states:

Solids

Liquids

Gaseous

If you want to convert liquid water to solid state (ice) then you have to pass it through a process called Freezing. And if you want to convert liquid into gaseous state (steam) then you have to pass through a process called evaporation.

Similarly when human beings pass through different situations, their state of mind changes. Few of these states are desired states of our mind and few others are undesired state of mind. State of mind has a great impact on ones appearance, performance, health and almost all aspects of personal and professional life.

We see a batsman who is on the top of the cricket world sometimes is not able to score even in double digits continuously for many matches. We call it out of form in the language of cricket. At times, we also hear popular film stars being into depression. A person who is very confident, balanced, and successful at particular phase of his life or in a particular set of situations finds himself tensed, non-confident and not-so-successful in some other phase or situations in his life. It means for most of the people maintaining the resourceful and desired state of mind in every aspect of life for a long time is challenging.

Whatever maybe the present state of mind of a person whether resourceful or non-resourceful but his desired state of mind is and should always be better than his present state of mind.

Following are few non-resourceful states of mind and their corresponding resourceful state or desired state:-

Worry – Hope

Threats – Opportunities

Insecure – Secure

Purposeless – Goal oriented

Confused - Determined

Weakness - Strength

Unhappy – happy

Failure- success

Family as Liability – Family as asset

Depression – Enthusiasm

Unmanaged- Managed

Dissatisfied- Satisfie

Unhealthy - Healthy

Hurdles – stepping stones

Anger – calm and cool

Load or the situation can't make or break you. It depends upon the way you carry it.

Whatever goal or objective we make whether short term or long term is an idea of our conscious mind. If our subconscious mind permits or gives its full consent to idea of conscious then our state of mind is resourceful and supportive for that goal. Whenever we make a goal or objective then for attainment of our desired objective we have to act or perform certain series of acts or functions.

If our state of mind is not good or resourceful then our efforts are not whole hearted. The idea, work, goal all seem to be burden and at times the person gets frustrated. Quiet often the end result is a failure. If a person carries on the undesired state of mind for long then it may result in long term disheartened working frustration. Such person finds himself bound in a vicious circle of failures.

On the other hand if the state of mind is positive or resourceful and our subconscious mind gives full consent to the idea or goal set by the conscious mind then the person performs the required actions whole heartedly. Whatever may be the situation, body does not get tired and mind does not feel bored.  Work itself gives pleasure. Idioms such as 'Work is Worship, seems to be true. Success embraces such person. Continuity of this resourceful state of mind results into a series of success and the person finds himself surrounded by the virtuous Circle of Successes. 

Now the question arises 'How we can convert our present state of Mind to its Desired state'. It will be covered in my next articles of this series PRESENT SATE OF MIND TO ITS DESIRED STATE – A JOURNEY. Part 2………..